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• Kevin Kelly: Technium Unbound
  In this Long Now talk Kevin Kelly wonders if the networked machines are working for us or if we're working for the networked machines.

• Quinn Norton: Against Productivity
  Quinn Norton wrestles with our productivity culture: "It is a surrender to nothing, to a nothingness of lived accounting."

Thrilled to have played a part in making this portrait of our village tin smithy. https://t.co/wUGDL4j8vg

— Paul Bausch (@pbausch) November 7, 2014

• Paul Ford: The Sixth Stage of Grief is Retro-Computing
  A wonderful story about networks, nostalgia, grief, computing history, and emulation.